Data Literacy: A User's Guide

By David L. Herzog

Book Overview

A practical, skill-based introduction to data analysis and literacy

We are swimming in a world of data, and this handy guide will keep you afloat while you learn to make sense of it all. In Data Literacy: A User′s Guide, David Herzog, a journalist with a decade of experience using data analysis to transform information into captivating storytelling, introduces students and professionals to the fundamentals of data literacy, a key skill in today's world. Assuming the reader has no advanced knowledge of data analysis or statistics, this book shows how to create insight from publicly-available data through exercises using simple Excel functions. Extensively illustrated, step-by-step instructions within a concise, yet comprehensive, reference will help readers identify, obtain, evaluate, clean, analyze and visualize data. A concluding chapter introduces more sophisticated data analysis methods and tools including database managers such as Microsoft Access and MySQL and standalone statistical programs such as SPSS, SAS and R.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1483333469
• ISBN13: 9781483333465
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.1" x 8.7"